Published on June 3, 2026
Gain essential knowledge about vitamin D with this e-course, part of an award-winning project proven to help increase confidence when discussing vitamin D… Enjoy a 30% savings to celebrate its latest update!
Our original Vitamin D Education Course, developed in 2022, was a core component of an award-winning presentation (see below). It aims to get the latest vitamin D public health science and best practice protocols, direct from world-renowned vitamin D researchers, into the hands of healthcare professionals and individuals… moving research into practice to impact individual and patient outcomes and population health, and potentially reducing healthcare costs across the globe.
While the newly updated (2026) and expanded vitamin D*education course, Moving Vitamin D Research into Practice: Addressing Vitamin D Deficiency to Improve Patient Outcomes, Population Health & Reduce Costs is great for ANYONE to take, nurses have the added benefit of receiving 11 CEs!
This course was created to help end the vitamin D deficiency epidemic by educating everyone on the latest research on vitamin D, importance of vitamin D for health, the steps each person needs to take in order to achieve their target vitamin D level, and the basic knowledge needed to answer the most common questions you might be asked about vitamin D.
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What You Get with the Course
- Access to the Vitamin D*Education course
- Access to the Vitamin D Best Practices Toolkit
- Approved for 11 CNE for nurses
- Pre-requisite for the Vitamin D*Practitioner Certification
- Cost: $149 (Save 30% now with our special launch code VITD30)
Learn the essentials about vitamin D, its role in health, how much is needed for each individual, how to achieve and maintain optimal levels, why it is important, and so much more.
Course Details
Title: Moving Vitamin D Research into Practice: Addressing Deficiency to Improve Patient Outcomes, Population Health & Reduce Costs
Gap in knowledge addressed: The public and clinicians are unfamiliar with concepts of how to address vitamin D for health purposes. This course was developed to bridge this gap between current research and practice.
Current state of knowledge: There is much unfamiliarity with the current vitamin D research along with confusion resulting from outdated and miscalculated guidelines. This has resulted in a lack of understanding around vitamin D and how to address it in clinical practice, along with high rates of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency.
Desired state of knowledge: After learning about the latest evidence on vitamin D and related health outcomes, along with proper vitamin D levels and dosing, clinicians and individuals will understand how to best apply the science backed protocols for themselves and their patients so that optimal vitamin D levels can be achieved and maintained.
Course Outline and Content: The course consists of text, graphics, and videos. Each section is followed by a short multiple-choice quiz. There is a pre-test and a post-test to assess change in knowledge from taking the course. Course content includes:
- Introduction
- Vitamin D Deficiency is A Global Public Health Concern: The Scientists’ Call to Public Health Action w/ video
- Module 1: Building a Foundation of Understanding Vitamin D Deficiency
- Module 2: Vitamin D Scientists & Experts Address Concerns
- Module 3: The Consequences of Vitamin D Deficiency
- Module 4: How Do We Move Research Into Practice Now? Using Vitamin D Best Practice Protocols
Add-on to the Vitamin D*Education Course: Become a Certified D*Practitioner!
Showcase yourself as an expert in vitamin D with this certification and a listing on the Vitamin D*practitioners page! A passing score of the Vitamin D*Education course post-test is required.
What you’ll get upon passing the Vitamin D*education course post-test:
- A Vitamin D*Practitioner Certificate from GrassrootsHealth
- A listing on the grassrootshealth.net Vitamin D*Practitioner webpage
- Access to other experts through the Vitamin D*Practitioner Forum, a community of other certified D*practitioners, experts and advisors for added professional support
Did you already pass the Vitamin D*Education course?
Add the Vitamin D*Certification Here
Feedback from Course Participants
“I was impressed with the quantity and quality of resources. Thank you for sharing! I plan to use some of the materials in my teaching practice.”
“Thought the course was well done, format easy to follow, provided actionable steps.”
“The course contained a ton of research-based information and resources. I was amazed at the data and how nicely it was compiled in this format. Well done!! Although I haven’t had much time yet to pass along the information since taking the course, I definitely plan to!”
Part of an Award-Winning Presentation
The educational content in this course is presented by GrassrootsHealth Nutrient Research Institute in collaboration with Beth S. Sanford, DNP, MSN-Ed, RN, ACN, CLC, and the NDNA and NDAND. Course content was reviewed and approved by senior vitamin D researchers and scientists.
The course was developed as part of Dr. Sanford’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) doctoral translational research project to implement vitamin D research findings into public health and practice. Preliminary results of the project were disseminated at the 2022, Fifteenth National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference in Tampa, FL, “Collaborating to Improve Healthcare Outcomes.” Results found that completion of a vitamin D toolkit, which included this e-course, a translational model, e-tools, and key resources (such as those found in the included Toolkit) significantly increased knowledge, confidence, and translation to practice and sphere of influence among nurses and dietitians.
Final results of this project were disseminated at the Health Professions Collaboration Conference: “Bridging Research with Practice,” hosted by the North Dakota Nurses Association, where the project won the award for Best Poster Presentation.
View the original translational research project paper here: (PDF) Development of a Public Health Model for Translation of Best Practices in Addressing Vitamin D Deficiency (researchgate.net)
Disclosures
No individual with the ability to control the content of this activity has any relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies to disclose.
This course has been approved for 11 CNE.
Criteria for successful completion of this educational program are attendance of the entire activity, completion of an evaluation, completion of a pretest and post-test.
* Continuing education is provided by UPvision Consulting, LLC. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP17995, for 11 Contact Hours. A CE certificate will be provided only after the course is completed in its entirety and a passing grade is received on the Post-Test. There are no refunds after purchasing this course.
Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D & Other Health Boosting Nutrients?
Measuring our levels of vitamin D and other important nutrients and health markers can be considered one way to check-in with our health status and guide us towards the steps to take next in improving and supporting our health.
Having and maintaining healthy vitamin D levels and other nutrient levels can help improve your health now and for your future. Choose which to measure, such as your vitamin D, omega-3s, and essential minerals including magnesium and zinc, by creating your custom home test kit today. Take steps to improve the status of each of these measurements to benefit your overall health. You can also track your own intakes, symptoms and results to see what works best for YOU.
Enroll and test your levels today, learn what steps to take to improve your status of vitamin D (see below) and other nutrients and blood markers, and take action! By enrolling in the GrassrootsHealth projects, you are not only contributing valuable information to everyone, you are also gaining knowledge about how you could improve your own health through measuring and tracking your nutrient status, and educating yourself on how to improve it.
How Can You Use this Information for YOUR Health?
Having and maintaining healthy vitamin D and other nutrient levels can help improve your health now and for your future. Measuring is the only way to make sure you are getting enough!
STEP 1 Order your at-home blood spot test kit to measure vitamin D and other nutrients of concern to you, such as omega-3s, magnesium, essential and toxic elements (zinc, copper, selenium, lead, cadmium, mercury); include hsCRP as a marker of inflammation or HbA1c for blood sugar health
STEP 2 Answer the online questionnaire as part of the GrassrootsHealth study
STEP 3 Using our educational materials and tools (such as our dose calculators), assess your results to determine if you are in your desired target range or if actions should be taken to get there
STEP 4 After 3-6 months of implementing your changes, re-test to see if you have achieved your target level(s)
